Sofa-bedstead



(No Model.)

W. OTT.

SOFA BBDSTBAD.

No. 302,863. Patented July 29, 1884.

N. PETERS. Phnhrhlhogmpher. Washinglon. n. c,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

WILLIAM OIT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

SOFA-BEDSTEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 302,863, dated July 29, 1884:.

Application tiled September 24, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM 0T1, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cool: and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sofa-Bedsteads; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to that class of lounges and sofas which may be extended to form a bed, and is in the nature of an improvement upon the bed-lounge patented to me by Letters Patent 0f the United States No. 186,608, dated January 23, 1877. That patent shows a sofa-bedstead provided with a head-rest consisting of extensible rods F,for the purpose of sustaining the bolster, the rods being pivoted to the inner part of the lounge, and resting, when extended, upon the head-boards of the bed. They are folded within the lounge when the same is closed. By this construction, however, the head-rest is hard and uncomfortable; and the object of my present invention is to provide a headrest, to be used in connection with a sofa-bed, which, while retaining the advantages of the one formerly patented to me, will overcome the incidental discomfort and. inconvenience before set forth; and to this end my invention consists in the construction which I give to the extensible support for the bolster, whereby it is supported out of contact with the head-piece of the frame, and acquires a yielding and elastic character.

In the drawing the figure is a perspective view of a sofa-bed provided with my improve ment, a part of the upholstering being re moved.

B is the support for the bolster, consisting of rods bent and pivoted to the frame, as in my said former patent, whereby when turned up they extend beyond the end of the lounge and lengthen it.

Instead of having the rods B rest upon the head-piece when turned up, as was the case with the device described in my said former patent,I form them of elastic metal, sufficiently slender to yield easily, and bend them to the form of an elbow near the pivots u, as shown at s, to afford a fulcrum and maintain them out of contact with the head-piece. Ordinarily, two supports are used with each lounge, as repre sented in my former patent, above referred to.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure \VILLIAM OTT.

In presence of DOUGLAS DYRENFORTH, ADELBERT I'IAMILTON. 

